The Military-Industrial-Intelligence Complex has grown
exponentially in the wake of 2001. There is a growing fear within the
Establishment of dissident activity, political organizing and the potential for
economic subversion. Retired general and former presidential candidate Wesley
Clark's recent and somewhat startling comments regarding prison camps
demonstrate this. The fact that the mainstream media all but ignored it was
also telling.
Some Christians have tried to make a point that Clark ran as
a Democrat, as if Republican propagandists and especially Christian
conservatives haven't expressed such opinions. There has been a steady call for
Japanese style 'internment camps' since 2001. The fact that a mainstream
thinker, not a pundit, is willing to utilize such language and for the media
not to make a point of it is worthy of note.
As 9/11 was utilized to create the DHS, pass the Patriot Act
and launch the United States into a worldwide and seemingly endless conflict we
are right to take this language seriously. The Unitary Executive seeks to turn
all aspects of life into a warzone, the realm of dictatorial
extra-Constitutional powers.
It is on this point perhaps more than any other that Obama
betrayed his most ardent supporters. It is at this point that Continuation and Enhancement rather than
Change accurately describes his core
agenda.
PNAC and other imperialist thinkers believed a new Pearl
Harbor was necessary to force the American public into supporting their wider
global aspirations. With the sudden arrival of the Internet Age, it would seem
that already new justifications are required for taking the American Empire
project to the next level.
Total Information Awareness (TIA) was never abandoned but it
was parceled and cast into the shadows. Over a decade later, the growing
complexity of our society requires a new paradigm, a new algorithm for control
of the information and maintenance of power.
We knew the Internet Age would change the world. That was
clear twenty years ago. No one could have imagined how quickly it would change
society and the possibilities it contained. In one brief period we have tasted
boundless possibility and yet in a flash we are presented with the framework of
a dystopia only imagined on the pages of Science Fiction. The door to Libertarian
dream and aspiration may in the end open to reveal a Totalitarian nightmare. We
shouldn't be surprised.
Whether such 'Pearl Harbor' event proved to be orchestrated
or merely capitalised upon, either way there are far from dormant powers
waiting to act.
